Re: svg for world map

Thanks you all


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Miguel <miguel.ceriani@gmail.com> wrote:

> To complement the other answers, at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blank_maps you can find some
> useful SVG blank maps.
> For most of these maps all the features of each country are grouped
> under an SVG element having as an id the two-letters ISO code of the
> country.
> So selectively changing appearance or providing event listeners is
> thus quite straightforward (having some knowledge of DOM, JavaScript
> and event handling).
>
> Miguel
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:21 AM, David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
> wrote:
> > A couple of years ago, as an experiment for my classes, I allocated
> about six hours to a project that involved taking a public domain/freely
> licensed (public domain is so much nicer than freely licensed since the
> damn licenses are a real nuisance at times when one is into cherry picking
> the good stuff) SVG map of the US (Wikimedia commons had a pretty one with
> the 50 states all nicely drawn to elementary school jig saw puzzle
> precision). sprinkling JavaScript-pixie-dust over it to color the stuff and
> assign event handlers, and then hooking it up to a multivariate US census
> data spigot that shaded the map on any of some 90 user-selected variables.
> Some of my cartography friends pointed out that it wasn't a great work of
> cartographic elegance, but heck, the six hours spent bringing it from
> conception to completion, and ready for classroom presentation was far less
> than the time the average person takes to orient to the use of D3, Raphael
> or JQuery. All those things are lovely, but sometimes writing 143
> characters of hybrid code in a metalanguage to avoid writing 36 characters
> of SVG seems a bit odd to me. But then, my perspective on such matters is
> often askew.
> >
> > In short, another approach, if you're comfortable with SVG and
> JavaScript is to roll your own. Some might call you a hippy, though, and in
> today's political climate that is a moniker you might want to avoid.
> >
> > Cheers
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doug Schepers [mailto:schepers@w3.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 5:22 PM
> > To: vicky b
> > Cc: www-svg@w3.org
> > Subject: Re: svg for world map
> >
> > Hi, Vicky-
> >
> > I suggest you look at d3.js [1]. There are various tutorials out there
> for working with maps and coordinates [2][3].
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery
> > [2] http://www.d3noob.org/2013/03/a-simple-d3js-map-explained.html
> > [3] http://www.schneidy.com/Tutorials/MapsTutorial.html
> >
> > Regards-
> > -Doug
> >
> > On 7/17/13 9:31 AM, vicky b wrote:
> >> HI All,
> >>
> >>    I want to develop a world map using svg and allow user to select de
> >> select countries.
> >>
> >>    can anyone give   coordinates for world map?
> >>
> >>    also how to handle event on svg can anyone point me to  good
> >> tutorial on this
> >>
> >> --
> >> /*Thanks & Regards
> >>   Vickyb*
> >>
> >> /
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